Cheers for the tips. I’m already up to KDE4 on Ubuntu at home 
On a hunch I ran
ldd which zypper|grep local
and it listed a libcurl library in /usr/local that I had installed for something else. I removed it, but still no change. I’m going to remove it’s cache and try again.
I removed it’s cache and tried again and still no good.
I’ve now installed yum from the main repo, and that’s fine. I’m more familiar with that from RedHat anyway.
Man, what a lot of updates in the mean time
And, after
yum update boost libzypp rpm zypper
zypper now works again:
zypper lu
- Building repository ‘10.3 updates’ cache
- Building repository ‘10.3 updates’ cache
- Reading repository ‘10.3 updates’ cache
- Reading installed packages [100%]
Repository: | Name | Version | Category | Status
-------------±---------------±--------±------------±------
10.3 updates | curl | 6004-0 | security | Needed
10.3 updates | dhcp | 6336-0 | security | Needed
10.3 updates | java-1_6_0-sun | 6314-0 | recommended | Needed
10.3 updates | libcurl4 | 4586-0 | recommended | Needed
10.3 updates | libcurl4 | 5227-0 | recommended | Needed
10.3 updates | libpng | 6324-0 | security | Needed
10.3 updates | ruby | 6339-0 | security | Needed
!?!
I’ve run into a similar problem of yast gui, yast2 curses, and zypper all getting segmentation faults. I had updated some packages, in particular sqlite and subversion. Googling the text of the log messages and symptons results in a lot of hits, but it was buzilla that was the most useful. Before spotting your entry, I added a new thread titled, “zypper yast segmentation fault”. I was hoping someone with more experience with SuSE and bugzilla knew the state of the bug/fix.
Bug 504251 - sqlite 3.6.14-8.1 breakes yast & zypper
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504251
I hope it helps. If you find a solution to your problem, please post it.
Thank you.